The Importance of Men’s Preventative Care

As people age, they naturally face changes and challenges to their overall health. As some of us already know, the body you have in your 40s is not at all the same as the one you had in your 20s. This means that your preventative healthcare routine has to change along with you. Screenings for different ailments, diseases, or cancers, become more vital as your body’s risk factor for these conditions can increase over time. Let’s take a look at what screenings and preventative measures you should be considering depending on your age.

Ages 20 -39

Most people are able to boast a strong metabolism into their late 20s or 30s. A healthy metabolism helps you eat and drink whatever you want while seeing few negative consequences. But a strong metabolism doesn’t mean you’re invincible. Common health problems for men in their 20s can include everything from erectile dysfunction to testicular cancer.

Men between the ages of 18 and 40 are the most unlikely group to schedule a doctor’s visit. This is concerning due to the fact that these years are some of the most crucial in terms of taking control of your health. Between the ages of 20 and 39 is when you should begin to regularly monitor your blood pressure as well as your cholesterol. Getting a yearly physical exam is just one of many healthy habits people in their 20s should develop to set themselves up for a healthy future.

Ages 40 – 65

Once you get to age 40, the need for screenings and checkups increases. Regular prostate exams and colonoscopies become crucial for men between 40 and 50 in order to make sure they’re clear of prostate and/or colon cancer. The chance of developing diabetes also rises as you get closer to 50, so it is recommended that people get tested at least once every 3 years.

Age 65 and Over

Humans stop growing new bone mass by the time they reach the age of 25 or 30. So by the time you get into your 60s, we’re at a much higher risk for issues stemming from brittle bones like osteoporosis and rheumatoid arthritis.

If you have ever smoked in your life you should be also be getting screened for abdominal aortic aneurysms, which can be caused by tobacco use and most often occur in people over the age of 65.

ACA and Healthcare Costs

When it comes to serious health conditions, early detection is key. Having the proper knowledge and awareness of your health will ensure that you’re well prepared for any medical challenge you take on. These routine test allow doctors to monitor, diagnose, and treat conditions before they become catastrophic health events that send patients to the emergency room or an extended hospital stay, saving them from the crippling medical debt associated with such events. Thankfully, most of the services mentioned in this article are covered under the Minimum Essential Care (MEC) clause of the Affordable Care Act. This means if you have a non-grandfathered employer sponsored or healthcare exchange medical plan, many preventative services are provided to you at no cost. Covered services can also include screenings for sexually transmitted diseases, flu shots, and counseling for smoking cessation and weight loss. These covered services and tests drastically reduce the out-of-pocket medical expenses formerly associated with preventative care and statistics show has also reduced the overall cost of healthcare.

If your group is looking for more information on wellness programs or any other employee benefit, contact us to speak to a consultant.

Infographic created by HIMS, a specialty men’s telehealth provider.


An Indoor Herb Garden: Not as Easy as it Looks

Most herbs suffer in silence indoors over the winter.

Can you really grow herbs indoors over the winter and thus always have fresh herbs to add to your menu. Yes, but… and it’s a big but.

And that’s in spite of the fact that lifestyle magazines and television shows keep on pushing the idea that growing herbs indoors is as easy as pie. I can pretty much guarantee that none of the journalists who promote the technique have ever tried it. They only repeat, like parrots, misinformation gleaned from others just as misinformed. So let’s dot a few i’s here.

Why Things Go Wrong

The problem is that most herbs just aren’t adapted to the conditions we can offer them in our homes during the winter, especially low light and dry air. Even in front of a large south-facing window, the light received by windowsill plants December through February is equivalent to no more than deep shade outdoors in June and July, notably because days are very short and often cloudy to boot. Fluorescent lights help, of course (set the timer for 16 to 18 hours a day to ensure maximum light), but give moderate light at best, enough to keep the plants alive, but not enough to promote the dense healthy growth of herbs grown outdoors.

Also, the atmospheric humidity in most homes is closer to that of the Sahara Deser than what herbs would like, that is at least 50%.

Barely 3 weeks after being brought indoors, this basil is already dead.

Plus plants weakened by a lack of light and dry air become prone to diseases and bugs, including whiteflies and spider mites. And eventually start to die back.

But don’t give up hope just yet: there are some herbs that do fairly well in the house and you can keep most at least alive if you know how to handle them.

Indoor Herb Scorecard

Bay laurel is one of the few herbs that actually does well indoors.

Bay Laurel or Bay Leaf (Laurus nobilis): This leathery-leaved plant is the easiest herb to grow indoors. You can place it in sun or partial shade or under a fluorescent lamp. Its growth is very slow, but it does grow, and it seems indifferent to the entire indoor temperature range, from 34˚ to 95˚F (1 to 35˚C). By bringing your bay laurel indoors every fall and putting it back outdoors every summer (it can stay outdoors all year in zones 8 to 11), it will gradually become a fairly sizeable shrub or even a small tree, but that will take decades.

Watch out for scale insects, though! Most bay laurels sold these days are already infested (read Another Bay Laurel Bites the Dust for more details), so make sure you get yours from a reliable source.

Parsley does fairly well indoors… if you give it your brightest light.

Parsley (Petroselinum crispum): If you pot yours up and place it in a brightly lit spot at normal room temperatures, it will grow slowly but steadily throughout the winter. The leaves may be a bit floppy, but they’ll still be edible. Watch out for spider mites though. It’s not worth saving parsley for a second year. It’s a biennial and begins to bloom in the spring, then becomes bitter. It’s done its job: just toss it in the compost!

Stevia is one of the happier campers indoors.

Stevia or Sweet Leaf (Stevia rebaudiana): This ultra sugary herb is one of the few that is of tropical origin (most classical herbs come from climates where winters are cold or even freezing) and, therefore, very tolerant of the warm temperatures we maintain in our homes. If you set the thermostat to please yourself and your family, it will be happy too. Give it as much sun as you can and if it starts to etiolate (stretch for the light), just chop it back. Give it normal houseplant care, including watering when the soil is dry to the touch.

There are other herbs of tropical origin that may not be traditional cooking herbs in European cuisine, but that have the advantage of doing fairly well in our homes. This group includes the various scented geraniums (Pelargonium spp.) and rau ram or Vietnamese coriander (Persicaria odorata). Lemongrass (Cymbopogon spp.) is a tropical grass (zones 9 to 12) that can also be grown indoors. Given it’s origins, you’d think it would do well there, but in fact, keeping it alive can be difficult unless you can offer it a very sunny windowsill.

“Think Twice” Herbs

These are herbs that will do all right indoors, but only if you meet their special needs. These aren’t necessarily going to be the stars of your windowsill, but they ought to be able to produce a bit of a crop indoors.

Young basil plants do all right indoors, but mature plants tend to keel over.

Basil or sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum): More people fail with basil than any other herb, but it will grow quite well indoors if you know what to do.

It’s important to understand that sweet basil is a naturally short-lived plant, little more than an annual. So when you try to bring in a basil plant from your summer garden, you’re dragging in a plant that is just about to croak: it rarely survives the transition between outdoors and in. However, if you sow basil seeds (ideally under lights), you’ll be starting afresh with a new young plant and should get excellent results… at first. It does go downhill more quickly indoors than out, so when it shows any sign of decline, harvest it and make a huge batch of pesto.

By resowing occasionally and always harvesting basil when it is still young and vigorous, you should get great results. Just give the plants the best light you can.

Note that basil loves heat: this is not a plant to put in a cool room. Keep in a spot that remains relatively warm even at night (preferably above 60˚F/15˚C) and it should to fine.

So much for sweet basil. There are perennial basil species that are naturally long-lived and that will do much better indoors, thriving over the entire winter in bright light. This group includes African blue basil (O. ‘African Blue’), holy basil (O. tenuiflorum) and lemon basil (O. x citriodorum), including the popular variegated form, O. x c. ‘Pesto Perpetuo’. Note though that these easier-to-grow basils don’t have the same taste as sweet basil (O. basilicum).

Chives needs a cold treatment before you bring it in.

Chives (Allium schoenoprasum), lemon balm (Melissa officinalis) and French tarragon (Artemisia dracunculus sativa): These three cold-climate plants tend to decline indoors… unless you give them a cold treatment first. Pot them up in September or October, but then leave them outdoors until they’ve gone through a good frost or two (or three). Now, when you do bring them in, they’ll think it’s spring and start to grow vigorously.

Oregano (Origanum vulgare), sage (Salvia officinalis) and thyme (Thymus vulgaris and others): These plants prefer to be outdoors in the winter and you may find mature plants don’t adapt well to being moved indoors. You’d do better to take stem cuttings in the autumn and grow the cuttings indoors instead. They’ll still be in their “young and vigorous” stage of life, allowing you a decent harvest.

Lemon thyme (T. x citriodorus) is particularly easy variety for indoor growing.

Rosemary: not the easiest herb indoors.

Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis): I’m always annoyed when gardeners gush on and on about how beautiful their rosemary is in the winter and how they have no problem growing it. You see, I just don’t have quite the indoor conditions it wants, that is a cool but intensely sunny room. Nor to most people. And a rosemary plant that doesn’t like its conditions is soon a dead rosemary plant.

Look for a spot when temperatures remain below 60˚C (15 ° C) at night (and in fact, during the day as well if possible), yet above freezing, and water it carefully, just enough so that the soil is barely moist and you too can have rosemary you can be proud of.

True lavender or English Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia): It prefers to spend its winters in the ground, but can sometimes remain alive indoors under the same conditions as rosemary – bright sun, low temperatures, and careful watering – although it won’t do much more than just sit there. My personal thought is that lavender really is an outdoor plant and there is no really good reason to want to grow it indoors.

Less hardy Spanish Lavender (L. stoechas and its hybrids, zones 7-9) can also spend the winter indoors under similar conditions. Bringing it indoors is a way for cold-climate gardeners to save it from the cold.

Mint (Mentha spp.): There are many species of mint and some do better indoors than others, but in general these are rock-hardy herbs that actually prefer a winter outdoors. When you try to grow them indoors, they tend to gradually deteriorate, unable to adapt to constant heat and dry air. But if you have a barely heated but brightly lit room or a cold greenhouse, they can do quite well. Unlike the two previous plants (rosemary and lavender), that prefer to their soil to remain barely moist, water mints well, although without exaggeration: they don’t like to dry out.

Herbs Not Worth Saving

Dill (Anethum graveolens), anise (Pimpinella anisum), coriander (Coriandrum sativum), borage (Borago officinalis) and chervil (Anthriscus cerefolium): These are annuals and will be nearing the end of their life cycle in fall, if in fact they are not already dead at that time. There is no use trying to save from the cold a plant that it is genetically programmed to die only a very short time later!

You can always sow seeds of these plants indoors (fluorescent light might well be necessary) if you want access to fresh leaves during the winter, but they probably won’t produce seed indoors and for several of these herbs, seeds are the part most often consumed.

Winter Care for Herbs

If you do decide to bring some herbs indoors for the winter, remember they’ll need as much light as you can give them as well as good atmospheric humidity. For the latter purpose, the use of a room humidifier may be necessary. Water them generously when the soil is dry to the touch.

If you grow your herbs in front of a window, stop fertilizing in late November. You don’t want to encourage them to grow under poor light, as that will lead to weak, etiolated growth. Start fertilizing again at the end of February or in early March, when the days are longer.

If you grow herbs under lights, that’s a different story: you’ll be able to maintain long days (16 to 18 hours) all year, so they’ll keeping growing all through the winter. Feed them monthly with an all purpose fertilizer.

Keep your eyes open for pests, especially spider mites and whiteflies, but also aphids. Treat them with insecticidal soap if you see any. And remove diseased leaves on sight, as they can spread like wildfire on stressed plants… and the average indoor herb is very stressed!

With a the information above, you should be able to cultivate at least a few herbs in your home this winter… and maybe even impress your guests with a bouquet of fresh herbs on the table in mid-January!

But be honest with yourself: growing herbs indoors may be trendy, but is not an ideal situation for most of them. You’re putting them through considerable stress and most would really prefer being left outdoors for the winter.

My thought is the following: for everything there is a season… and winter is just not the season for most herbs. A truly laidback gardener would learn to accept that herbs are summer plants and leave it at that.


equivalence in translation

equivalence in translation

A challenge in multinational research is establishing equivalence of meaning for a concept. Some words may be easily transliterated, but transliteration may not do justice to the idea behind the word. For example, “purpose” in English is “propósito” in Spanish. But “propósito” may not capture the nuances of meaning, intention, and beyond-the-self impact that research on youth purpose focuses on (Moran, 2015).

Rather, the English equivalent of the words expressing the concept of purpose would be “ideal life” in China, “life project” in Brazil, “hopeful future” in Finland, “ultimate achievement” in Korea, and “objective” in Spain (Moran, 2015). These other terms carry metaphorical connotations originating from each country’s nuances and development over time.

Cultural or linguistic differences can be adjusted with “decentering.” Researchers collaborate to agree on the meaning of the concept, then to modify the language appropriately rather than using verbatim words (Larkin, Dierckx de Casterlé, & Schotsmans, 2007; Su & Parham, 2002).

Another example from our collaborative study of how service-learning influences youth purpose around the world occurred with the phrasing asking about students’ experiences doing work in their communities. The English version asked respondents to answer several questions about their “most recent fieldwork.”

However, “fieldwork” in Spanish transliterates to “trabajo de campo,” which could also mean working in the countryside. So instead, researchers chose “sevicio y aprendizaje” (service-learning) to be clearer.

In Finnish, the reference to “most recent fieldwork” could not be addressed in a preliminary paragraph before the questions. It was important that this phrase be included in each question.

The challenge of equivalence is compounded when trying to translate across more than two countries. A word, item, or concept may be relevant in some countries but not others, or directly translatable across some languages but not others. For example, while a life purpose focused on job/career may be applicable across all countries, owning a business may not be a relevant option in all.

Although there are guidelines, there are no absolute rules in translating a research survey into multiple languages. The process requires patience, collaboration, and empathy. However, these “difficulties” may be opportunities in disguise (Moran, 2015). The variability of meanings across countries are intriguing and deserve further investigation in their own right.

 By Cori Palermo, Clark University

Read also Variability in Translation.

Moran, S. (2015, November). Cultural and historical roots of purpose. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Association for Moral Education, Santos, Brazil.


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Jupiter in opposition today. Wow!

The world's beauty is joined by extraterrestrial beauty, and since Jupiter is now closer to Earth than it has been in a year, NASA took some pics.


How To Clean Coins With Muriatic Acid

Have coins appraised before cleaning them yourself.
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Coins can generally be cleaned in a variety of ways. They can be cleaned with a soft toothbrush dipped in a mild soap and water. They can also be soaked in a cup of white vinegar with a tablespoon of salt dissolved in it, for example. Muriatic acid can be used to clean coins that are covered with a grimy crust. You have to be careful cleaning coins, especially when you're using strong chemicals such as acids. You can easily wipe the details off a coin and turn it into a worthless piece of metal.

Choose a well-ventilated area to work in. Muriatic acid fumes can cause lung damage. They are both toxic and corrosive (see resources). Protect yourself with long-sleeved shirt and pants, closed shoes or boots, rubber gloves and safety goggles.

Dilute the muriatic acid with water in a small plastic bowl. Pour the water in the bowl first. Then pour the acid in slowly so it doesn't splash. Use one part acid to 20 parts water. Carefully stir the solution with a plastic spoon.

Place the coins in the diluted muriatic acid to clean them. After the bubbling stops -- it can take a half minute to as long as a couple minutes -- remove the coins from the bowl. Rinse them well with clean water.

Mix up a solution of baking soda and water in a clean plastic bowl. Use one part soda to three parts water. Place the coins in the solution for 24 hours.

Remove the clean coins from the soda water and rinse them with clean water. Then, dry them with a soft cloth.

You can use the leftover muriatic acid to clean more coins.

Muriatic acid- which is also called hydrochloric acid- is a corrosive chemical. It should be used with extreme care.

Never pour water into muriatic acid. Always pour the acid into the water.

According to anythinganywhere.com, (see resources), it's okay to clean gold, platinum, silver, iron and nickel coins with acid. Copper, brass, zinc, tin and aluminum are all on the "No" list.

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Dr. Stephanie Bailey Dr. Stephanie Bailey

Dean and Director of Public Health Initiatives, College of Health Sciences, TN State University

Dr. Stephanie Bailey talks about the distinction between healthcare, public health and population health
“Health departments are slow to get to the cutting edge. They’re used to dealing with the day-to-day things and the task burden is high. That’s where partnerships and tools of electronics should be used more because it will help get everyone involved in the health of the community.”

What do you see are the key distinctions between the roles of healthcare, public health and population health and the impact each has on our communities?

Population heath is usually associated with public health. Public Health, in our circles, is the health of the public – the derivation to population health was brought up to move it away from private individual health and more of the population as a whole. The Institute of Medicine put out a dynamic publication around 1988 which began the conversation about explaining public health and it evolved into the essential services performed by public health. In a nutshell, it was about public health in America: preventing epidemics (like Ebola and TB) and the spread of disease, protecting against environmental hazards, prevention of injuries, promoting and encouraging health behaviors (the health promotion part), responding to disasters, assisting communities in recovery and ensuring the quality and accessibility of health services (which brings in healthcare).

Given your roles at the CDC, NACCHO, and as Director of Public Health, what is your perspective of how various health agencies (federal, state or local) team up to balance tasks, aid in prevention methods and achieve overall public health goals?

It’s difficult still and it shouldn’t be. It’s difficult because of the way funding comes down from federal government to communities, because of overlapping responsibilities of various agencies across the federal and state governments, because of the complexity of cases which come into their purview. If we look at how the money comes down to service patients or public health clients (say, at a local health department), it is very complex. If you were to put all federal agencies on the top level, state agencies on the middle level, and local agencies and patients on bottom level, and then draw lines from Federal agencies (CMS, CDC, etc.) – the money comes down through the state departments and then it’s distributed out to the local level or directly to community based organization or public health department. The money crisscrosses so that there may be up to 21 discrete funding lines to treat the one individual.
Each individual agency adds on their particular service to service the whole individual, rather than looking across the aisle for a collaboration of expertise to partner with, to coordinate with other health agencies. For example, you can’t use a TB investigator to go into a drug house and investigate both the STD and TB patient because the STD money can’t be crossed with TB money nor vice versa.
The various agencies should balance better, but there’s overlapping responsibilities, there are funding strains; different areas of reimbursement and complexity of cases that make it impossible to team up and balance. So it gets very complicated and we need to simplify all those mechanisms.
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What is your opinion on Electronic Health Record EHR and Meaningful Use measures and the impact they have on the public health infrastructure? How can EHR benefit local health departments?

I think Electronic Health Records are great! It will make the infrastructure stronger, and make it less cumbersome. It will allow for more access to records and less redundancy, and I think it will decrease costs. I think there are some downsides like privacy, but the benefits far outweigh what some of the downsides may be.
Software in all industries make complex tasks simpler, reduce errors and increase efficiency. Done right, EHR can help public health departments by taking complexity of dealing with numerous funding sources and associated reporting and compliance. Public Health focused EHR can streamline operations by providing local health departments:
1. Single Patient View: Provide a single view of patient in the health department. Due to the silo nature of funding, a patient record (at a local health department) is in different binder e.g. immunization is in one place, STD is in another paper record, family planning visit is in another.
2. Eliminate systems and dual data entry: Numerous funding agencies require recipients to log into various systems to either enter data or provide reports. An EHR can eliminate this burden. Data only needs to be entered once and the EHR can send it to wherever it needs to go, automatically. Given the complexity of funding, this can be a huge saving for public health departments.
3. Achieve Compliance: We all wish our staff to follow best practices. These rules can be built into the EHR, with appropriate alerts, to ensure that the whole organization is compliant to funding agency defined best practices. Additionally, federal government has mandated the use of meaningful use compliant EHRs.
4. Patient Involvement: People need to be more involved and feel more empowered about their own health. Electronics play a role to allow me to monitor, measure and view progress.
So, yes, we need to move to EHR and I think it can only enhance the infrastructure for health delivery. As it becomes a system – and that’s my vision, than the access to data will be a great benefit. With that data you can give a better health status of community and know which interventions need to be implemented as the quality of life and health status changes over time.

You are, as you say, “a lifetime champion of community health excellence”. Tell me what you mean by that, how you came to be such a champion, and why this matters to you.

This one comes from looking back at my life, as well as the other personal tag that “I lift people up so that they can soar”.
Because of my long career in public health and dealing with assessments and processes that help bring communities together, in order to look at their health; and create and manage a strategy to seek better results for themselves. I see them come into the realization that this is ours. During my tenure as director of health, we were looking at disparity issues in Davidson County. It was our responsibility and it had nothing to do with whether we received money from the state or federal government, it was the community which had the dynamic processes and the assets; had the will and wherewithal to create healthy environments for themselves. That’s where my passion is and that’s where I thrive. I champion this!

How can the community and private organizations partner with public health departments to help build “excellence” for their communities?

It can be forced; better when it is not. The IRS has required nonprofit hospitals to do community health assessment for tax exemption status. So you’re finding that what used to be just a purview of public health is being recognized as something which should happen in other venues as well. So you see hospitals doing community assessments and other organizations doing them and you see funding coming down requiring partnerships with public health for the health of the public. Partnering and everyone in is the only way health can happen. It doesn’t just happen at the doctor’s office it happens in so many other ways and is largely determined by factors outside of healthcare delivery system.

About Dr. Stephanie Bailey

Dr. Stephanie Bailey served as the Chief for Public Health Practice of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from 2006 to 2010, she held the position of Director of Health for the City of Nashville/Davidson County from 1985 to 2006 and was President of the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) among many other roles. For more information about Dr. Bailey’s achievements and awards and her “lifetime champion of community health excellence”, click here.


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MJ joined PrincetonOne in 2016 and currently serves as Delivery Director for the company’s Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) team. In his current role, he is responsible for the training and development of the team’s Talent Assessment Specialists.

With a deep understanding of the recruiting industry, MJ enjoys helping his team members achieve their goals, no matter how big or small. He works diligently to help them hone their skills, expand their knowledge and ensure that they have the resources, guidance and unwavering support they need for continued success.

MJ is currently pursuing his bachelor’s degree in Human Resource Management from Western Governors University in Salt Lake City, Utah. Away from the office, MJ enjoys tending to his urban homestead complete with chickens and a robust garden with his girlfriend, Sena, their dog, Oliver and their cat, Richard. His hobbies also include traveling, volunteering and showing off his Championship Pigeon Showman belt buckle around the office.

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What Associations Can Learn from Papal Succession

by Associations Now | Feb 14, 2013
Associations Now interviewed Jackie Eder-Van Hook and Robert Van Hook on what lessons associations and nonprofits might learn from the papal successions.

Even with the unexpected resignation of its spiritual leader, the Catholic Church has a system in place to swiftly install the next pontiff. What can associations learn from it?

What if your organization's CEO announced today that she was no longer able to effectively execute the duties of her position and would resign at the end of the month? How would your organization handle the news, and would you know what steps to take next?

"A succession plan helps the organization follow a well-thought-out plan created in advance of a leadership crisis, when clearer minds are likely to prevail."

That's pretty much what happened this week to the Catholic Church and its more than 1 billion members.

Pope Benedict XVI shocked the world Monday when he announced that he would be stepping down from the papacy at the end of the month due to his deteriorating health, but his decision is unlikely to significantly disrupt the Church's operations. When the time comes ”probably next month, according to news reports” Catholic leaders from around the globe will gather in Rome to begin the centuries-old process of selecting a new spiritual leader. Past papal elections, at least in the modern era, suggest that the transition will be seamless.

You probably don't employ a College of Cardinals to select your organization's next leader, but there is something to be learned from the Catholic Church's "succession plan," say Bob Van Hook and Jackie Eder-Van Hook, co-founders of Transition Management Consulting, Inc. Here's what they told Associations Now after news of the popeâ€™s departure broke this week:

It would seem that the Catholic Church has succession planning figured out, given they've had a set process in place for centuries that seems to be working.

Jackie Eder-Van Hook: The Catholic Church has done a good job of creating a succession strategy. The Cardinals have been developed over the course their careers, and the Vatican has a discernment process that helps identify those who would be most capable of serving as pope. Of course, the system is not a flawless process, as there is a paucity of diversity among the candidates.

What are the benefits of having a succession plan in place, especially in an instance where a vacancy happens suddenly or unexpectedly?

JEVH: Most associations do not have the capacity to develop hundreds of cardinals. A succession plan helps the organization follow a well-thought-out plan created in advance of a leadership crisis, when clearer minds are likely to prevail. Having a plan in place allays the concerns of staff, members, vendors, and other stakeholders.

When an association doesn't have a succession plan, what might it face if a sudden vacancy occurs?

JEVH: Selecting an executive leader is one of the most important responsibilities of a board of directors. When a board is faced with a leadership vacancy and they do not have a plan in place, they must make a lot of decisions in the midst of a crisis. Most boards lack experience hiring nonprofit executives and find themselves at a loss for what to do. Without effective interim leadership, momentum in achieving the mission may be lost, and staff, members, and stakeholders may feel adrift.

What are the first steps a group should take when faced with a sudden vacancy?

Bob Van Hook: Take a deep breath. While it might be a crisis of planning, it is not a crisis. An executive search may take four to seven months. The first question is how to maintain the association's momentum during the vacancy and provide for interim management. This can give the association space for determining how well the organization is operating and where it wants to go in the future, and what type of leader they will need.

How does a group design a succession plan that addresses sudden vacancies?

BVH: A good succession plan objectively considers current organizational realities, such as finances, staffing, priorities, governance, and expected duration of vacancy. This helps determine whether the organization is ready to conduct the search for a long-term successor and establishes the strategy for that search. Succession planning should be a key responsibility for any board of directors and is no less important than developing a strategic plan. It is a lot like estate planning no one likes to do it, but if you don't, the consequences are serious for those left behind in the organization.

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The story

Two vagabonds are waiting in the middle of nowhere for someone who is supposed to come and find them. But soon, the first questions arise: is it the right place and the right time? Has Godot already come? Since when are they waiting? And especially, what should they doin the meantime?

Actors' note of intent

We do not go towards the await, nor does it come to us. Waiting in contemplation time is extremely threatened in our current society, it is considered as a danger, we even try to avoid it, by “killing the time". Due to too much entertainment, the modern man no longer possesses one of his essential abilities, to waste time. Deprived of speech and "lock out outside" it is through the body and sounds that these characters, who no longer think clear but hope much, will wait sometimes calmly, sometimes submerged with impatience and childish madness, the imminence, the end of the await.

What do we do now?

Above the void everything is possible, creativity, hope, joy but also despair and sadness. What to do when boredom seizes you?

"Waiting for Godot" is the story of the modern man. These small gaps of time should be regarded as half empty or half full, between comic and tragic, entertainment and boredom, small flights of life and hangovers, unexpected encounters and the return to normal.

Staging note

How to stage the await?

At the beginning there is a space, and as occupants a tree and two vagabonds and around them, nothing. There is no place, no time, no particular indication of the characters, there is not even a storyline, the action is repeated without an end.

The scene is not cut off from the public, the latter is free to wander around the structure that encloses the characters, so they can see them evolve as in an aquarium. The time is the same for the actors as for the audience and the await is the same for both parties, with the feeling that time does not pass. Nuance the boundaries between actors and spectators, making boredom and entertainment coexist. This piece is halfway between theatre and clown. Beckett's existential questioning encounters the absurdity of the human condition. Here is the challenge of this piece, to put the nothing in action.

Manon Legrand has been trained in various private schools such as the Acting International and Peyran-Lacroix courses. In addition to her professional studies, she completed internships at the Ruby complex theatre in Los Angeles and at the hostellerie de Pontempeyrat directed by Alexandre Del Perugia. She later performed in two plays at the Opéra nursery theatre - "We missed the end of the world" by Hervé Bernard Men and "The powder" by Mylène Lormier. She has also participated in various short films, commercials, documentary and dubbing.

Emma Julian, 22 years old, after obtaining a degree ES in Lyon she moved to Paris to follow her professional training at the Cours Florent. In the first year and in parallel with the program of this school she have assembled a troupe with class friends,

"The great tirade" with which she has performed for a year in Paris.

During this training she was also able to take part in the graduation piece, open to the public and closing her years of study. Finally she had the chance to play at the Center Wallonie Bruxelle in Paris in a creation directed by Felicien Juttner.

Alan Barcelon is a young French writer who has lived a large part of his life in Spain. He worked as an assistant director on a French feature film and Spanish films. After studying theatre in Paris and projects where he worked with directors such as Benoit Guibert and Michele Harfaut, and staging works like "Faust", "Festen" or "Le roi s'amuse", this year he publishes his first collection of poems.

Pierre Séveno followed a theatrical training at the Cours Florent in Paris as well as The One Man Show at the theatre cafe in Nantes. He had the opportunity to work with directors such as Félicien Juttner and Michèle Harfaut. In 2017 he staged the play "Caligula" in Paris, a play around the cycle of the absurd. He has been experimenting with various musical and body projects ever since, and has appeared in several short films and commercials.


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Causes of Truck Accidents: Driver Fatigue

Causes of Truck Accidents: Driver Fatigue

Although state and federal transportation safety officials have implemented a series of regulations to attempt to prevent truck driver fatigue and the collisions it can cause, tired motorists continue to operate their vehicles. Fatigue can result in impairments similar to alcohol or drug intoxication.

The following are several things fatigue can do to a trucker:

  1. Loss of attention and focus on the road and the primary task of operating a vehicle
  2. Impair judgment and decision-making skills
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  4. Result in falling asleep behind the wheel

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Hours-of-service (HOS) rules are in place to try to prevent trucker fatigue and ensure that they take the appropriate amount of time to get rest in order to operate their vehicles safely. According to FMCSA regulations, truckers are allowed to work up to 14 hours a day, but can only drive 11 hours out of the 14-hour day. The FMCSA requires that truckers and trucking companies maintain logs, expenses receipts, and other paperwork to track hours of service regulations.

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How to Bend Cardboard

Cardboard is a sturdy, lightweight and cheap craft material with many uses. Corrugated cardboard -- the type typically used in consumer boxes -- is made up of three layers of paper, involving a sheet of wavy "fluted" paper in soft vertical accordion pleats sandwiched between two smooth layers of paper. Whether you use cardboard to provide hidden strength to a project like a book cover, or it is the project's surface material, like a piece of cardboard origami furniture, the cardboard likely needs to be bent or folded. Because the material is designed to be stiff, a clean bend or fold can be difficult to achieve.

Things You'll Need

  • Pen or pencil

  • Metal ruler

  • Table

Bending Cardboard with the Grain

Step 1

Lay your piece of cardboard on a hard work surface. Look at its edges. If you can see the wavy line of the fluted core of the cardboard you can cleanly bend or roll the cardboard in the same direction as the fluted material. You should be able to see little lines or ridges running along the surface of the cardboard. This is called its "grain."

Step 2

Mark with a pencil or pen along the line where you want to bend the cardboard and fold along the line. The cardboard will easily fold along the fluted ridges in its core.

Step 3

Line up your piece of cardboard so its grain is parallel to the edge of your work surface. Run the cardboard over the edge of a table, pushing down slightly along its length to crease the paper between each fluted ridge. You will now be able to roll the cardboard into a cylinder or bend it into an arch or "U" shape.

Bending Against the Grain

Step 1

Lay your cardboard out on your work surface.

Step 2

Draw your pattern onto the wrong side of the cardboard, marking any fold lines.

Step 3

Line up your metal or metal-edged ruler along your fold line. Press the edge of the ruler firmly down into the cardboard. Lift up the ruler, move it down the line and press again if your fold line is longer than the ruler. The ruler will leave a groove in the cardboard without breaking its surface. The cardboard will now easily bend along the groove.

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Saudi Arabia classifies feminism, homosexuality, as a form of extremism

Saudi Arabia’s decision to classify feminism, homosexuality and Westernization as a form of extremism comes amid alleged liberalization of the status of women in the Kingdom.

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Saudi Arabia’s general department of counter-extremism, which is part of the State Security Presidency, tweeted an animated video aimed at its citizens information them about extremist ideas and behaviors, including feminism, homosexuality, Westernization and promiscuity.
The tweet was released on November 8,  2019, declaring these ideas as an unacceptable form of extremism,  to which many Saudis online expressed support for its message, especially in regards to feminism. Saudi Arabian women, since 2011, have seen the gradual growth of their freedoms, such as the right to drive a car, access to government services and the right to register a divorce.
Due to fear of a backlash from Western countries, and internal criticism from the Saudi Shura Council members, female media figures and intellectuals, led Saudi authorities to remove the video several days after its release.
In a statement released by the State Security Presidency on November 12, 2019, the service renounced all responsibility for its release, declaring that it “contained many mistakes in its definition of extremism,” and was released without prior approval.
Despite some new freedoms given to women, they still face many restrictions. Some women’s rights activist who have been campaigning for more freedoms are currently imprisoned, including allegations that some have been tortured.


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